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Show GERMANS I REPLY TG RUSS PEACE PROPOSAL Bolshevik Headquarters ! Notified That General . Hoffman Has Given Answer to Courier, Who Has Started for Petrograd; Ready to Renew Negotiations. AUSTRIA WILLING TO TALK TERMS Headquarters of Western West-ern Russian Army Is Moved Into Interior, While Huns Continue to Advance; U. S. Am-bassabor Am-bassabor Prepares tc Leave Capital. LOXDOX, Feb. -23. A Kassian wireless wire-less government statement received here tonight says: Germany wili renew the peace negotiations ne-gotiations and will conclude peace on the .following conditions: Both to declare the war ended. All regions wet oi" the line indicated indi-cated at Brest-Litovsk by the Bus- ' sian delegation, which formerly belonged be-longed to B:is?ia, to be no longer under tho territorial protection of. Kussia. , In the region of Dvinsk this line must bt? advanced to the eastern frontier of Courland. The former attachment of these regions to the Russian state must in no case involve for them obligations obli-gations toward Bnssia. Russia renounces re-nounces every claim to intervene in the internal" affairs of those regions. re-gions. Germany and Austria-Hungary have the intention to define further the fate of these regions in agreement agree-ment with their populations. Germany is ready, alter tlie completion com-pletion of Russian demobilization, to evacuate the regions, which aro east of the above line. So far as it is not stated otherwise, Livonia and Esthonia must immediately be cleared of Russian troops and red guards. Release Inhabitants. Livonia and Esthonia will be occupied oc-cupied by German police until the date when the constitution of the respective countries shall guarantee their social security and political order. All inhabitants who were arrested for political reasons must be released immediately. Russia will conclude peace with the Ukrainian people 's republic. Ukraine and Finland will be immediately imme-diately evacuated by Russian troops and red guards. Russia will do all iu its power to secure for Turkey the orderly return re-turn of its Anatolian frontiers. Russia Rus-sia recognizes the aunulation of the Turkish capitulation. The complete demobilization of the Russian army, inclusive of the detachments newly formed by the present government, must be carried car-ried out immediately. Russian warships in the Black sea. the "Baltic sea and the Arctic ocean must immediately either be sent to Russian harbors and kept thero until the conclusion of peace or be disarmed. Warships of the entente which are in the sphere of Russian authority must be regarded as Russian ships. Renew Navigation. Merchant navigation of the Black sea and Baltic sea must be renewed as stated iu the armi-ticc treaty." The clearing away of mines is to begin immediately. Tlie blockade of the Arctic ocean is to remain in force until the conclusion j of a general peace. I The Russo-Gennau commercial treaty of 1914 must be enforced ! again. Tn addition, there must be guarantee for the free report, without with-out tariff, of ores ar.d the immediate immedi-ate eomjnen ecu lent of negotiations for the co n id usi on u f a n e w com -mercial treaty, with n guarantee of the most favored nation treatment, at. least until l;i;io, oven iu the case of the termination of the provi-soriuin, provi-soriuin, and finally, the sanction of all clauses corresponding to paragraph para-graph 11. of clauses 3. 4 and 15 of the Ukraine peace treaty. Legal and political relations are to i..c regulated in accordant o with tiie division of the first version .or the Ger ma no-Russian convention, o far as action on that decision has not yet been taken, csceciallv (Continued on Page Five. GERMANSBEPLY TO RUSS PEACE OFFERS i j (Coutlnuod from Tage One.) j Tiith ropoot to indemnities for ei-j ei-j vil ti:unai,'s. tliis must bo in ae-j ae-j eor.laneo with tho tloriuan proio?a. I And there nuit Lo indemuit'ii'ation i with fXpetiHCs for w;tr iirisoners, in J a-'-'or-iatuo with the Uuian pro pwal. Mit End Agitation. Kiiia ill permit hii.1 support so far as he can G or man eouiniis-sion eouiniis-sion for war prisoners, civil prisoners pris-oners nad war refugees. Kusia proniies u i u t an end to tery proj'aauda aiui agitation, eit V.. r on ti;0 part of the povoru-ment povoru-ment or ou the part of person? supported sup-ported hy tli o government. aaint meml-ers of the quadruple alliance aud th-nr political and military in-I in-I stituttons. even in localities occu-i occu-i pied by the central powers. The above conditions must be accepted ac-cepted within forrr-ei-'ht hours. The Russian plenipotentiaries must start immediately tor Brest l.itovk and si$;n at that place within three nays a pt-acp treaty, which mu5t b6 I ratified within two week?. The forepoin, adds the F.?ian of-I ficial statement, is dated Hrrlin. Feb- ruary 21. and is signed by Von Kuchb T.ann the 0 erman f "rein secret :i ry , add lieutenant-general anie omitted), : commander-in-chief of the army. , |